This simple but beautiful paper shows that the mammalian vestibular system has a transient capacity to regenerate sensory hair cells through cell division after damage.

Although non-mammalian vertebrates can readily regenerate lost sensory hair cells after damage, regeneration is never observed in the mammalian cochlea, and only at extremely low frequency in the vestibular system. In the present study, the authors show that cultured...

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